Conway's Game of Life – Trying It on Images(zx.rs)
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Conway's Game of Life – Trying It on Images
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A gif would be nice, or simply some result jpgs, if you like.
> The only other thing I'll state is that Life is a Turing-complete machine, so with right initial states it can "do" any computer algorithm.
This only hints at the more important part: only a Turing-complete language can implement Life. Thus, an implementation of Life in a particular language is proof that that language is Turing-complete.
This only hints at the more important part: only a Turing-complete language can implement Life. Thus, an implementation of Life in a particular language is proof that that language is Turing-complete.
true, but strangely I've never realized that before, thank you
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Interesting concept, but some video of the results is missing.
Yeah it sounds really cool but let's see it in action!
The author has a repo on GitHub: https://github.com/anbud/PxlSort
(The link was hidden midway through the article and it was very non-obvious that it was a link)
(The link was hidden midway through the article and it was very non-obvious that it was a link)
Well, why not treat the RGB image as 3 games of life? One fore each channel.
You can also create automata with video by treating it as a three dimensional world. I did a bit of messing around with this a few months ago[1] and created some examples. The only one I can still find that is interesting is probably this one: http://gfycat.com/SelfreliantUnequaledAmericanindianhorse (Forgive the source material.)
Of course it's hard to look at all of a video at once, so you only see slices of the actual world...
[1] https://github.com/Wollw/Video-Automata
Of course it's hard to look at all of a video at once, so you only see slices of the actual world...
[1] https://github.com/Wollw/Video-Automata
Here's an example I made in plnkr.co: http://embed.plnkr.co/y1a3DWh1P8tTTUamsWbE/preview
It begins by filling in the canvas with random colors.
It begins by filling in the canvas with random colors.
If you're interested in how artists use these systems, McCabe's Bone Music is a good start: https://vimeo.com/17329897.
https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life/blob/master/image.py
I'll make a quick .gif, if folks are interested.